I'm sure there are some in the same boat. My son is 22. He has some interest in cars and hot rods, but it's minimal. He's not really motivated in that area. He had a 66 Chevy truck, that I have now. When He gave it to me I tried to turn it into a father son project. After an hour or so with a wire wheel, cleaning road tar and gunk from inner fender well, well so went the interest. He's into video games, fishing, and I'm sad to say, smoking an illegal herb......
Now I've known alot of guys whose sons weren't interested in cars, racing, or even whatever the old man was into. I always wanted to build a car with my dad. He was a car guy when he was younger, but marriage, and his marriage to IBM seamed to take that away.

Now here's where it gets different. I have a 14 year old daughter. Youngest of 4. Two older daughters 28 and 25. She is not super girly, kinda in between. She wanted a skate board for Christmas, although hasn't the nerve to really try it yet. Well she asked me a couple months back if she could help me on the 28 rpu. It's the Lethal Weapon build in the builds section. Well I said yes. And there has been little to do, as I just haven't had anything to work with. Well now we are going to have parts flowing in this week and weeks to come. I scored a rear end Saturday, and am picking up steel today. So it's fixing to take off, real quick. She asked me about it yesterday, told her I was picking up steel today. She also told me a couple weeks ago she might want to take welding in high school. I told her I could show her how, give her the basics and see if she liked it first. She is leaning twards engineering.

Now I don't know what to think. I mean I think its cool. She can certainly help all she wants. I have even made a couple of changes in my plan so I can use it to teach her to drive. I guess it just makes me feel bad that I haven't been able to do that with my son. He's been in a little trouble and irresponsible, but he was a teenage boy, so maybe I was kinda hard on him. I guess it's just mixed emotions. Happy my daughter is interested, sad my son is not. And maybe guilty that I have done or said some things that would make my son not feel close enough to me to want to do anything with me.................